Improvement in car-couplings



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Patented Nov. 27, 1877-.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

OSCAR M. OOLE, OF PORTLAND, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-COUPLINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,458, dated November27, 1877; application filed June 23, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR M. COLE, of Portland, in the county of Ioniaand State of Michigan, have invented an Improvement in Oar-Couplings, ofwhich the following is a specification The object of my invention is toconstruct the draw-heads of railway-cars in such a manner that each willengage an entering link when set for that purpose, and also to provideit with a means for lifting the pin for uncoupling two cars withoutgoing between them for that purpose.

The invention consists in the peculiar guiderod, and in the peculiarconstruction of the coupling-link, as fully hereinafter explained.

Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal verticalsection, showing the pin raised. Fig. 3 is a similar section aftercoupling is effected.

In the drawings, A represents a draw-head, having a tumbling-latch, B,pivoted by a pin, b, in the lower inner end of the socket, and which, iffree, will fall forward in the path of the coupling-pin O, which itsustains, as seen in Fig. 2, until pushed in by the end of an enteringlink, D, whereupon the pin 0 will fall through the link, and thus couplethe cars together.

To guide the-pin, a rod, E, is passed through an eye just below itshead, and then bent down, so as to pass through two guide-lugs, c

0, cast on each side of the draw-head, with nuts or other stops d at thelower extremities to prevent the pin from being withdrawn from thedraw-head. The guide-gate E affords a means for raising the pin fromeither side of the car through a lever or other device, while a chainfrom the head of the pin to the top of a freight-car enables thetrainmen to uncouple from above.

The link D has an eye, D, formed at one end, just large enough toreceive the body of the pin, by closing in its sides. This is done inorder to have the link held in a horizontal position, so as to presentit fairly to an opposing draw-head.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. The combination, with the draw-headA and pin O, of the guide-rod E, bent into the form shown, and passedthrough the pin below its head, and through lugs c on the sides of thedraw-head, and the stops d on the ends of said rod, constructed andarranged substantially as described and shown.

2. The link D, having its sides closed together near one end to form aneye, D, constructed and arranged substantially as described and shown. 7

OSCAR M. COLE.

Witnesses:

H. F. EBERTS, H. S. SPRAGU'E.

